Author: Brad Meltzer.

Title: The First Consel or The Tenth Justice. Legal thrillers. Way better than Grisham.

Holy cow -- those were totally AWESOME books and most definitely better than what Grisham has put out lately!!

Although one of my top 3 all-time fav's is still A Time to Kill - even the movie did a great job of staying true to the book.

That's because A Time to Kill was a movie first, then a book. He originally wrote it as a screenplay which the movie was based on.

Those of you in book clubs, what do you usually discuss? I can't imagine it would be that interestint to start discussing imagery and literary devices.

Maybe we should pick something on politics? history? Current Events? Human nature? Philosophy? The new science? Something to spark discussion and debate?

The problem with that is that no one would be able to debate peacefully -- I really can see things going downhill fast on any topic that would cause passionate emotions to emerge.

When we read the book for my book club, we discussed lots of things. We discussed parts of the book (such as "I was really surprised that he married Jane - I thought that he would marry Ann") as well as settings ("wow - I really thought the descriptions of the Amazon were vivid and moving") and how well written the book was overall - whether it was credible or not, emotional dialogue, etc.

It was really neat to see how others captured the book in their minds - what the main characters looked like (as in we thought about who we would cast for certain roles), how much feeling came through for each of us, etc. I really enjoyed the group discussion, even if the book suck-ked.

Andi, you killed the whole idea! ;)

Ok this is what we should do. From now till tuesday, post a book you would like to suggest as well as a description of it. We'll put it together in poll form Tuesday night, and vote on it. We'll take the top three and vote again. So wel will know which book to get by this coming weekend.

Is that ok with everyone?

Queen Bees and Wannabes-the title is self-explanatory. :p

I wanna play too. I think we need like a facilitator or something.

:( Thanks for confirming my suspicions! *sniff* But, I will not take my books and go home...the plan above sounds good to me.

I've already said it, but I'll nominate "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac...description below from Barnes & Noble.com:
...One of the most influential and important novels of the 20th century, this is the book that launched the Beat Generation and remains the bible of that literary movement. On the Road's publication in 1957 was a wake-up call to the American public that not all its youth were modeled after characters on Ozzie and Harriet: it portrayed Ivy League-educated white kids who smoked dope, hitchhiked, and frequented black jazz joints and Mexican whorehouses. It was the harbinger of the radical changes that would soon sweep society in the 1960s.

I'll go with the wishes of the masses, though, if there are only 2 of us on this list who haven't already read this....

Killing GC, one thread at a time....

Family Trust
High powered business woman and born-rich philantropist inherit guardianship of child.
This books is hysterical....

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe, Douglas Adams
I haven't read this in forever...
Silver

I met Brad Meltzer at LAX in the book store when I was in Law School (right after his first book had been published). I was looking for a book to read and he tried to convince me to buy his book (and succeeded).

Ironically, my uncle owns a mystery bookstore here in town and Brad Meltzer does book signings for him all the time now. He's a really nice guy.

i'm so excited about this- good idea james;) i'm reading the secret life of bees by sue monk kidd- it is amazing! its really emotional- but definately awesome
some suggestions for titles:
i love john irving: a prayer for owen meaney, hotel new hampshire, whats eating gilbert grape, a widow for one year

the da vinci code is always a good one- i read the lovely bones too (haven't gotten to lucky yet) and i have tons of books- i was an english major for a long time too- so i read lots of different things there as well and i LOVE to read (pm me if you want a good reading list lol)

i'll volunteer to be the "leader" for the book club if there is a need- just let me know:)

I'll read On the Road, but here's another nomination to add to the poll:

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Description from Barnes & Noble: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/boo...rid=O9t1vATsXG

Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works -- and only a handful of collections -- to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among the many other awards and honors the book received were the New Yorker Debut of the Year, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the highest critical praise for its grace, acuity, and compassion in detailing lives transported from India to America. In The Namesake, Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations. Here again Lahiri displays her deft touch for the perfect detail -- the fleeting moment, the turn of phrase -- that opens whole worlds of emotion. The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged marriage, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
An engineer by training, Ashoke adapts far less warily than his wife, who resists all things American and pines for her family. When their son is born, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of bringing old ways to the new world. Named for a Russian writer by his Indian parents in memory of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd, antic name. Lahiri brings great empathy to Gogol as he stumbles along a first-generation path strewn with conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. With penetrating insight, she reveals not only the defining power of the names and expectations bestowed upon us by our parents, but also the means by which we slowly, sometimes painfully, come to define ourselves. The New York Times has praised Lahiri as "a writer of uncommon elegance and poise." The Namesake is a fine-tuned, intimate, and deeply felt novel of identity.

I want in, well, as much as I can until I get home for the summer.

I'm supprised no one has mentioned this but..

"The Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom
(he also wrote "Tuesdays With Morrie" another GREAT book)

Seriously, this is one of THE best books I have ever read. it such a quick and easy read. If you haven't read it already, please do, it will change you perspective on a LOT of things.

dzandiloo- I haven't read "On The Road" yet either.

I agree on The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with Morrie.....both are great books, and easy to read.